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"Sweden's gross domestic product, by comparison, amounted in 2011 to more than 3500 billion."

The irony.

Looks like a typo, it should be around 500bn$. 3500 would be Germany. Proof that "fat finger" human mistakes can do as much damage as algos gone wild.

I am not sure custom curricula are a good idea. Education is more about how it's learnt and less about what is learnt. Beware of technology's cognitive biases too, see how TV is transforming education into entertainment. Computers have their own biases, just see the difference between today's teenagers and teenagers from 15 years ago.

I was expecting some graph at least...

This is a bayesian problem, depending on the a priori probability given to a "special dice" pri,

P = 2 * pri / (1+pri)

(Which is > to the probability before tossing)

Toska: looks like Melancholy Saudade: how is that different from mourning?

One thing that can be both a quality and a problem, is that The Wire is very demanding. A lot of what happens is implicit or not directly seen on camera. Also, episodes are not as self-contained as, for instance Mad Men, where you can watch one stand-alone, without needing too much background on who's who, and what happened before.